Practitioners versus Academics

Rosanna pointed to three blog posts which all relate to the applicability of action research to CoPs

I’ve blogged about it from different perspectives:

http://gionnetto.blogspot.com/2005/07/theory-vs-practice.html

http://gionnetto.blogspot.com/2005/06/idealising-cops.html

http://gionnetto.blogspot.com/2005/07/in-cops.html

The overall theme seems to be to contrast practioners against academics, and then stand outside to see the limitiations of both perspectives, which must be a promising approach to take.

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